At the 2017 Fire Island Dance Festival, Havana, Cuba’s Acosta Danza, led by dance legend Carlos Acosta, presented For Us, a mesmerizing ballet that explored the passion, frustration and sadness of a couple in love. Dancers Mario Sergio Elías and Raul Reinoso expressed this tragic love story through

ONE LIFE tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Aust

The 21st edition of Fire Island Dance Festival featured 43 professional dancers entertaining three sold-out crowds with Broadway, ballet, contemporary and modern dance. Fire Island Dance Festival returned for its 21st edition July 17-19, 2015, with some of the most talked-about world-class dance com...

In this installment of the World AIDS Museum (WAM) Chronology Exhibit we highlight the work of Humanitarian Elizabeth Glaser who's work and the creation of the Pediatric Foundation has been instrumental in the successful fight against the incidence of HIV/AIDS infections among children in the US and...

British pop band Years And Years, whose front man Olly Alexander is openly gay, has just dropped a new music video for their track “Desire” which is all about celebrating queer and non-hetero-normative, well, desire. Alexander wrote a lengthy post on the band’s Facebook page explaining the motivatio

The winning design has been announced for the planned National Pulse Memorial & Museum in Orlando, Florida. It features “a spiraling, open-air museum and educational center with vertical gardens, public plazas, and a rooftop promenade.” Its soaring tower will be visible for miles around. The winning

On a picturesque waterfront stage overlooking the Great South Bay, this year’s Fire Island Dance Festival welcomed ballet, modern and contemporary dance powerhouses on July 15-17, 2016. The 22nd annual edition of the summer’s most talked-about cultural and charitable event in Fire Island Pines raise

The song "Prayer of the Mothers", was born as a result of an alliance made between singer-songwriter Yael Deckelbaum, and a group of courageous women, leading the movement of “Women Wage Peace”.
The movement arose on summer 2014 during the escalation of violence between Israel and the Palestinians,

Celebrating the 90th birthday of Stephen Sondheim by broadway super stars: 0:18 - Stephen Schwartz - "Prologue" (Follies) 3:28 - Broadway Musicians - "Overture" (Merrily We Roll Along) 8:47 - Sutton Foster - "There Won't Be Trumpets" (Anyone Can Whistle) 12:47 - Neil Patrick Harris - "The Witch's Ra

Mars Dune Alpha, the 3D-printed Habitat Located at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Will Aid in Long-duration Science Missions ICON, developer of advanced construction technologies including robotics, software, and building materials, announced it has been awarded a subcontract through Jacob